Bound: A Vampire Romance (Marked by Night Book 2) by Sara Thorn

Author:Sara Thorn [Thorn, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“I would have just killed him,” I said as I held hands with Cassius and walked down the castle stairwell toward the dungeons. “You should have killed him for everything that he has done to us and to so many others.”

“I know,” Cassius replied. “Trust me when I say that I wanted to.”

“Then, why didn’t you?”

“Mara,” he said as he stopped on the steps and turned to face me. “Ever since the day in that room when Athan touched you, I have thought about how I would slowly and agonizingly take him apart to make him pay for what he has done. But I cannot turn into my father; I won’t. My father acted with violence and impulse, and I feel his blood run through me sometimes, too. When I look at Athan, I want to rip his neck apart with my bare teeth, but that is not the kind of man I want to be—not for you. I want to be better than that for you.”

“You are better than that already,” I said as I touched his face with my fingertips.

“I will offer Athan one chance at redemption. I will offer him one final kindness that he does not deserve if he will bow down to my rule and swear fealty to my reign. He must agree to abandon his obsession with ridding the world of half-breed vampires and embrace a new way of life. If he does not accept this, then I will leave him in this dungeon to rot slowly and not waste another moment of my mind or soul being taunted by his corruption.”

I understood what he was doing. I knew why he resisted killing his half-brother now by his own hand. But I wished that it wasn’t for me. I would have preferred to see Athan’s head rolling down the staircase like a stray ball.

“I do not wish to see him again,” I said. “I’ll wait outside the door.”

Cassius nodded, and when we had reached the bottom of the stairs and the cell Athan was held in, he kissed my cheek and then went inside to meet with his half-brother.

I paced the corridor, wishing that just this once Cassius resorted to his carnal impulses and tore Athan limb from limb. I did not pace for long because, in just a few short moments, Cassius stepped out of the room. I looked up at him in anticipation, still hoping that he would tell me how he lost his temper and pummeled Athan’s head into a bloody pulp against the wall.

“He did not agree,” he said coldly. “And so he will sit chained to that floor, and he will rot until he dies.”

He took my hand in his as we ascended the stairs again. When we reached the top, Cassius spoke to the guard there. “No one is to take my half-brother anything. He is sentenced to wither and rot in that cell alone. Is that clear?”

“Yes, Cassius,” the man nodded. “I’ll inform all of the others.

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